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Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications Constable and co, ltd Affichage du livre entier - 1831 |
Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications Constable and co, ltd Affichage du livre entier - 1833 |
Constable's miscellany of original and selected publications Constable and co, ltd Affichage du livre entier - 1829 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
agreeable Arreau arrived ascend Avignon Bagnères Bagnères de Bigorre banks Baréges Basil baths beautiful Berne Bieretz boat Bourdeaux breakfast bridge Cagots canton Canton of Uri castle Cauterets character charming Chateau cheese Chur church cultivated defile descend Einsiedeln elevation Engadine England English excellent feet fertile France French gardens Geneva Glarus Grindelwald Grisons growths half hour hundred inhabitants Interlaken journey labour lake Lake of Bienne Lake of Lucerne Lake of Zurich land leagues Loire Louchon Lucerne meadows miles morning moun Mount mountains neighbourhood passed peasant Perpignan Pic du Midi picturesque plain Pont produce Pyrenees reached recollect residence Rhine Rhone river road rocks scarcely scene scenery seen side situated spot St Sauveur strangers stream sublimity summit Swiss Switzerland tains thing Thoulouse tion Tours town traveller trees valley Vaucluse Vevay village vineyards walk wine wood Zoug Zurich
Fréquemment cités
Page 280 - In viewing the descent of the trees, my nephew and I stood quite close to the edge of the trough, not being more interested about any thing than to experience the impression which the near view of so singular an object must make on a spectator. The noise, the rapidity of the motion, the magnitude of the moving body, and the force with which it seemed to shake the trough as it passed, were altogether very formidable, and conveyed an idea of danger much greater than the reality. Our guide refused to...
Page 275 - Lucerne, are great forests of spruce-fir, consisting of the finest timber, but in a situation which the height, the steepness, and the ruggedness of the ground, seemed to render inaccessible. They had rarely been visited but by the chamois hunters ; and it was from them, indeed, that the first information concerning the size of the trees, and the extent of the forest, appears to have been received. These woods are in the canton of...
Page 278 - ... foremost, into the steep part of the trough, and, in a few seconds, acquires such a velocity, as enables it to reach the lake in the short space of six minutes ; a result altogether astonishing, when it is considered that the distance is more than eight miles ; that the average declivity is but one foot in seventeen, and that the route which the trees have to follow is often circuitous, and in some places almost horizontal ! Where large bodies are moved with such velocity as has now been described,...
Page 281 - The noise, the rapidity of the motion, the magnitude of the moving body, and the force with which it seemed to shake the trough as it passed, were altogether very formidable, and conveyed an idea of danger much greater than the reality. Our guide refused to partake of our amusement ; he retreated behind a tree at some distance, where he had the consolation to be assured by Mr. Rupp, that he was no safer than we were, as a tree, when it happened to bolt from the trough, would often cut the standing...
Page 144 - All has been done for it that industry and an extreme love of gain can devise. There is not a foot of waste land in the Engadine, the lowest part of which is not much lower than the top of Snowdon. Wherever grass will grow, there it is; wherever a rock will bear a blade, verdure is seen upon it ; wherever an ear of rye will ripen, there it is to be found.
Page 126 - ... although, in presenting some details respecting this extraordinary people, I disclaim any pretension to novelty or original elucidation, yet, having travelled among their valleys, and seen their huts and themselves, I feel that it would be an unpardonable omission, were I to omit availing myself of even the common sources of information, in order that I may include, in this volume, a short account of the Cagots.
Page 276 - The accounts which he heard there of the forest just mentioned determined him to visit it ; and he was so much struck by its appearance, that, long and rugged as the descent was, he conceived the bold project of bringing down the trees, by no other force than their own weight, into the lake of Lucerne, from which the conveyance to the German Ocean was easy and expeditious. A more accurate survey of the ground convinced him of the practicability of the project. " He had, by this time, resided long...
Page 108 - Generally speaking, an Engadine peasant lives entirely upon the produce of his land, with the exception of the few articles of foreign growth required in his family, such as coffee, sugar, and wine. Flax is grown, prepared, spun, and woven, without ever leaving his house. He has also his own wool, which is converted into a blue coat without passing through the hands of either the dyer or the tailor. The country is incapable of greater cultivation than it has received.
Page 285 - ... suggested the present undertaking. Previously to the commencement of the late war, the buyers of books consisted principally of the richer classes — of those who were brought up to some of the learned professions, or who had received a liberal education. The saving of a few shillings on the...
Page 276 - ... stranger, this was not the least difficult part of Mr Rupp's undertaking. " The distance which the trees had to be conveyed is about three of the leagues of that country, or, more exactly, 46,000 feet. The medium height of the forest is about 2500 feet ; (which measure I took from General Pfyffer's model of.